bungarooshとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

bungaroosh (uncountable)

1. A building material composed of miscellaneous materials, such as broken bricks, cobblestones, pebbles, sand, and pieces of wood embedded in hydraulic lime, used primarily in the English seaside resort of Brighton.
   • 2011, Gilly Burton & Caroline Wallis, Brighton & Hove East Cliff, ISBN 9781903709061:

     The properties in Charles Street are amongst the first purpose built visitor homes in Brighton. Like the local houses constructed before them and after, they are made in part of bungaroosh (a local Sussex name for flint かつ lime wall), brick, lime-plaster and timber.

   • 2012, Matthew Slocombe, Traditional Building Materials, ISBN 0747811075, page 65:

     Far to the south, another composite form of wall, using shuttering, was 'bungaroosh', used particularly in Regency Brighton and neighbouring areas on the south coast.

   • 2015, David Watt, Surveying Historic Buildings, ISBN 1317742451:

     Disintegration of bungaroosh: Failure associated with lack of cohesion or excess moisture.